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How have Arizona’s most high-profile first-year coaches fared?
All of us have questions.
Over the past yr or so, the College of Arizona athletics program had greater than most.
Was Jedd Fisch even a satisfactory selection for soccer? How would Tommy Lloyd fare as a head coach after 20 years as an assistant? Chip Hale actually loves Arizona, however was he the precise man to helm the baseball program? And eventually, how would Caitlin Lowe fare changing a legend?
Early returns for all are promising, although it’s nonetheless early to name the issues settled and there are nonetheless issues we have to be taught. Let’s break it down.
Jedd Fisch
You’d be onerous pressed to discover a coach with a greater optimism-to-wins ratio. Although the coach’s first season featured only one victory and a loss to Northern Arizona, what he and his workers have completed within the weeks and months because the last sport has been nothing in need of outstanding.
A top-25 recruiting class, the addition of impression transfers and the retention of the majority of the roster in an period the place different applications have hemorrhaged expertise all communicate properly of the coach’s capacity to get issues rotated.
Nonetheless, till the wins begin coming it will likely be truthful to query in the event that they ever will. Nobody ought to be anticipating greatness this coming season, however with an improved roster and extra time within the system it’s completely truthful to anticipate noticeable enchancment.
Tommy Lloyd
Actually, what extra could possibly be stated concerning the former Gonzaga assistant? He pulled key gamers again out of the switch portal, added a pair transfers and led the Wildcats to an historic season that noticed them end with 33 wins together with a convention title, convention match title and Primary seed within the NCAA Event. Lloyd was named Coach of the Yr by the Pac-12, Related Press, NABC and USBWA.
All of that occurred as a result of the gamers thrived in Lloyd’s free-flowing offense. His capacity to get the workforce to purchase in and be taught the ideas so shortly is a testomony to his teaching acumen, and by all accounts he’s the whole lot Arizona might have hoped for—and extra—in changing Sean Miller.
Lloyd is proving to be an adept recruiter, too, each stateside and overseas. The latest addition of Henri Veesaar seems to be fairly the coup, and Arizona is probably going not but accomplished including to the roster. Add within the 2023 class, which already encompasses a pair of high American prospects, and it’s clear Lloyd can purchase expertise from all components of the globe.
At this level, the one issues Lloyd has left to show are whether or not or not he can’t solely win with a roster purely of his making, however win at a stage Arizona has not seen in additional than 20 years.
Chip Hale
Shedding Jay Johnson to LSU was a blow, and it was truthful to query whether or not or not Hale was actually the perfect Arizona might do. The Wildcats have one of many higher applications within the nation, and a first-time school coach is at all times a threat, irrespective of how beloved they’re.
Now in his first postseason, Hale has confirmed to be … ummm … wonderful. The Cats received off to a scorching begin solely to hit a little bit of a lull in the course of the season. That inconsistency carried with them the remainder of the way in which, placing them nearer to the NCAA Event bubble than anybody would love.
Although, maybe Arizona’s document doesn’t inform your entire story. Hale’s squad carried out admirably within the Pac-12 Event and completed with 11 victories over top-50 RPI opponents, seven of which got here in opposition to groups within the high 25. Arizona ranks thirty ninth, and statistically the Wildcats have put collectively a strong season each on the plate and on the mound. Particular person performances from the likes of Daniel Susac, Chase Davis (hopefully his shoulder harm isn’t critical), Tanner O’Tremba, Garrett Irvin, Quinn Flanagan and others ought to present confidence within the workers’s capacity to educate gamers up.
Additional, the season will not be even over but. Assuming it makes the NCAA Event, Arizona is not going to be a favourite nor will the Cats be anticipated to go far. However Hale’s job, a minimum of this season, was to not mess issues up whereas (hopefully) constructing for the lengthy haul. On the primary level he has accomplished properly, and on the second, properly, recruiting appears to be going properly however with baseball it’s not at all times straightforward to inform.
Which leads us to the largest query of Hale, and that’s whether or not or not a coach whose taking part in days ended within the late-90s and has by no means earlier than been a university coach can recruit at a excessive sufficient stage to maintain Arizona baseball among the many finest within the nation.
Caitlin Lowe
It’s not unfair to say of all the brand new coaches (of the principle sports activities) Arizona employed, Lowe had the hardest job. She didn’t face a rebuilding venture like Fisch nor did she step right into a program with doable sanctions on the way in which as Lloyd did. No, she needed to take over for a legend, Mike Candrea.
It’s typically stated that it’s higher to observe the coach who adopted the legend, however Lowe took the problem head-on and has put collectively a season that, much like Hale, has not been nice however has room to enhance this very season. Her squad didn’t put collectively a superb convention season, however total did sufficient to succeed in the postseason for the thirty fifth consecutive season.
So in that regard Lowe was 1 for 1, conducting the one affordable aim set out earlier than the season.
However she completed much more, guiding this workforce again to the Ladies’s Faculty World Sequence. Was it the expectation? Not this yr. However her capacity to get her workforce to play a few of its finest ball when it issues most is, properly, one thing the perfect coaches are capable of do.
Something after this is able to be gravy and hey, they’ve made it this far so why not win just a few extra video games, proper?
That’s to not say it’s a whole shock and the Cats are plucky underdogs. Arizona is a softball establishment, and this isn’t a roster missing expertise. In actual fact, there have been some wonderful particular person seasons—many, truly—particularly on the dish. Allie Skaggs has been nice, whereas Jasmine Perezchica, Izzy Pacho and Carlie Sculpin have led a lineup that ranked first within the Pac-12 in batting common, second in slugging share, first in hits, third in runs scored and second in runs batted in. Arizona’s 92 residence runs have been additionally second within the convention, whereas its 818 whole bases have been greater than anybody else amassed.
Trying on the totality, issues could possibly be loads worse. Arizona was in an attention-grabbing spot with new coaches in a few of its most necessary sports activities, and whereas none have absolutely solidified themselves as able to getting their respective applications to the place they need to go, every has proven sufficient to be ok with them getting extra time to strive.
Arizona continued its program trend of putting together a poor effort right after a really good one, losing at home to Texas Tech on Saturday night to mark the sixth consecutive loss immediately after beating a top-10 opponent.
Pro Football Focus didn’t think too highly of the performance, either.
Arizona earned an overall grade of 67.2, the second-lowest of the season and just slightly better than the 66.9 it got from the 31-7 loss at Kansas State last month.
The Wildcats’ offensive grade (64.0) was its lowest of the year, understandably considering that they only managed five field goals and a touchdown off 10 trips into Texas Tech territory while turning it over three times. Arizona’s defense (68.6) had its second-best grade of the season, slightly ahead of the mark it earned after the 23-10 win at Utah.
For the season, the UA ranks 50th in FBS with an overall grade of 87.1, which is ninth out of 16 Big 12 schools. Its next opponent, No. 17 BYU, is second-best in the league and 29th nationally at 91.0.
Below are the snap counts and overall grades for every UA player who appeared on offense and defense, as well as some individual superlatives.
Offense
- RG Alexander Doost (82, 76.6)
- RT Jonah Savaiinaea (82, 71.9)
- C Josh Baker (82, 67.4)
- LT Rhino Tapa’atoutai (82, 55.7)
- QB Noah Fifita (82, 51.3)
- WR Tetairoa McMillan (81, 71.9)
- RB Quali Conley (60, 69.0)
- WR Montanta Lemonious-Craig (58, 55.8)
- TE Sam Olson (52, 52.2)
- LG Wendell Moe (43, 81.1)
- WR Jeremiah Patterson (38, 57.2)
- TE Keyan Burnett (35, 75.1)
- LG Ryan Stewart (29, 54.6)
- RB Kedrick Reescano (22, 52.0)
- TE Roberto Miranda (20, 43.4)
- WR Devin Hyatt (19, 52.1)
- WR Chris Hunter (16, 52.7)
- LG Joey Capra (12, 64.6)
- FB Kayden Luke (5, 61.7)
- OL Michael Wooten (3, 60.0)
- WR Reymello Murphy (2, 57.5)
Defense
- S Dalton Johnson (58, 81.0)
- LB Jacob Manu (58, 69.4)
- DB Genesis Smith (58, 67.2)
- CB Tacario Davis (58, 62.1)
- LB Taye Brown (58, 60.1)
- CB Emmanuel Karnley (53, 46.2)
- DB Owen Goss (48, 68.9)
- DE Tre Smith (40, 71.8)
- DT Ta’ita’i Uiagalelei (40, 68.4)
- DT Stanley Ta’ufo’ou (40, 54.3)
- DE Chase Kennedy (39, 63.3)
- DE Dominic Lolesio (18, 65.6)
- DE Sterling Lane II (16, 57.0)
- DT Isaiah Johnson (15, 52.3)
- DT Kevon Darton (15, 52.0)
- S Gunner Maldonado (10, 68.9)
- CB Marquis Groves-Killebrew (5, 45.9)
- DE Lance Keneley (3, 61.5)
- DT Keanu Mailoto (3, 60.7)
- DT Julian Savaiinaea (3, 60.6)
Highest-graded offensive starter: Doost (76.6)
Highest-graded defensive starter: D Johnson (81.0)
Lowest-graded offensive starter: Miranda (43.4)
Lowest-graded defensive starter: Karnley (46.2)
Highest-graded subs: Moe (81.1), Burnett (75.1), Goss (68.9)
Top pass blocker: Moe (88.8)
Top run blocker: Moe (81.9)
Top run defender: Davis (78.2)
Top pass rusher: Uiagalelei (73.6)
Top tackler: Davis (80.4)
Top coverage: D Johnson (80.9)
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TEMPE — Arizona State wide receiver Jordyn Tyson caught a pair of touchdowns in the fourth quarter to overcome first-half miscues in a 35-31 win over Kansas on Saturday at Mountain America Stadium.
All even at 14s to start the second half, the final quarter saw five lead changes as Tyson cashed in the Sun Devil’s final two scores with 32-yard and 3-yard touchdown grabs.
With 2:04 remaining, ASU leaned heavily on the ground attack, with seven straight runs to set up the only pass of quarterback Sam Leavitt to Tyson.
Tyson’s game did not start off as successful. He fumbled in Kansas territory in the second quarter and later saw a tipped pass land with the Jayhawks for an interception before later finding redemption.
The sophomore wide out credited assistant coach and former Pittsburgh Steeler Hines Ward for helping him develop in such a short time period.
“On that (last) touchdown, (Ward) has been preaching, ‘Dig, dig, dig,’” Tyson said. “I dug. What happened? Touchdown. It’s everything. (Ward) has been there, done that. He’s not going to tell me nothing that’s wrong.”
Arizona State football leaned heavily on the run game in their final drive, setting up Sam Leavitt’s game-winning TD pass to Jordyn Tyson with 16 seconds on the clock.
Listen to the call by @MunnyBall: pic.twitter.com/wUNvoOWWjd
— Arizona Sports (@AZSports) October 6, 2024
Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham said he gave Tyson the game ball because the program is all about how players respond to mistakes.
“(Tyson) was about as upset as you could possibly be,” Dillingham said. “The fact that he could regather himself, and go execute and finish with a positive attitude is everything we’re trying to build here.”
ASU running back Cam Skattebo was key as well, rattling off several chunk-yardage runs to keep the Sun Devil hope alive. He did not quite match a 262-yard performance in a 30-23 win over Mississippi State, but the senior hustled for 186 ground yards on 25 carries. A 39-yard gain in the fourth quarter matched a season-high (also against Mississippi State) and Skattebo had six rushes for 10+ yards for a productive day.
Redshirt freshman Leavitt threw for a career-high four touchdowns on 14-of-24 passing while responsible for 157 yards. He also had success with his legs, Leavitt covering a career-high 77 yards on 10 carries, including 18 yards on the game-winning drive.
“We do 2-minute all the time in practice,” Leavitt said. “Dillingham just said fall back on your training. … We were able to bust a big run that helped us set (the game-winning touchdown) up. The O-line played a hell of a game. … A couple of plays early in the game, a couple of mistakes, but why would I ever lose faith?”
The Sun Devils strolled down the field for a opening 7-play, 75-yard score as Leavitt hooked up with wide receiver Xavier Guillory from 28 yards out. ASU has now scored a touchdown on its opening drive in four of its first five games.
Putting this game in the mix, Kansas has held a fourth-quarter lead in five of its six games. The Jayhawks had won eight straight when they did not a commit a turnover before Saturday.
All smiles from the Sun Devils after their first win in the Big 12. pic.twitter.com/X2GVMjaRRq
— Arizona Sports (@AZSports) October 6, 2024
A 107-degree kickoff temperature in Tempe was the hottest recorded since 2000. ASU played in record-type heat for the first time in October, as every other occasion occurred in late August or early September.
Junior defensive back Xavion Alford, who recorded three tackles, said he was not fazed by the scorching conditions.
“It did not feel like (107 degrees) to me,” Alford said. “It might have felt like that to (Kansas).”
Arizona State (4-1, 1-1) will now shift its focus to the Utes (4-1, 1-1), hosting their third Big 12 opponent of the season on Friday with a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.
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